Job address
US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Human Services
occupation category
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Educates clients' family members about addiction, behavior disorders and supports them in developing coping strategies
- Documents and reports on assessment findings and treatment recommendations
- Evaluates clients' mental and physical health, addiction, or problematic behavior
- Applies required diagnostic criteria for evaluating substance use
- Recognizes client's culture, demographics, and cognitive functioning in assessment processes
- Develops safety plans with clients
- Delivers wellness and recovery services in accordance with policies and procedures; state and federal regulations; and professional, ethical, and legal principles
- Supports clients in developing skills necessary for recovery and behavioral change
- Encourages client actions that are beneficial for progress toward treatment goals
- Facilitates administrative procedures for admission to treatments
- Documents clients' contacts, assessments, and activities
- Coordinates clients' ceremonies, events, and other program activities
- Presents action plans for addressing client needs to the client and significant others
- Advocates for clients throughout the continuum of care
- Tracks clients' progress and serves as an accountability partner
- Initiates collaboration with client referral sources
- Communicates and collaborates with caregivers and other professionals
- Facilitates integrated approaches to client treatment plans to enhance progress and treatment outcomes
- Tailors strategies and treatment modalities to client's stage of psychological and physiological dependence, change, or recovery
- Adapts counseling strategies to individuals
- Includes measures of outcomes in treatment plans and delivery
- Uses scientifically supported treatment strategies and methods, and applies them to case planning decisions
- Implements crisis/emergency procedures according to protocol
- Provides documentation within regulatory requirements and program specific guidelines
- Develops treatment plans, goals and objective measures for desired outcomes
- Develops treatment plans that are sensitive to the insurance and health maintenance options available to clients
- Reviews treatment plans with clients adjusts when necessary
- Identifies discrepancies in information given by client and/or concerned others
- Incorporates family, social networks and community systems in individual service plans
- Conducts interview processes, applying the use of open‐ and closed ended questions and other interview techniques and provides client feedback
- Attends team meetings, staff meetings and training
- Establishes relationship with stakeholders e.g. referral sources and other community programs to strengthen service delivery
- Plans discharge process for clients, referrals and coordination with other providers after completing therapy program
- Plans, designs, conducts, and reports research in a manner that is consistent with pertinent ethical principles, federal and state laws, host institutional regulations, and scientific standards governing research
- Utilizes science-based treatment, recovery, relapse prevention and continuing care methods
- Trains others, designs behavioral systems, and performance management
- Writes behavior plans, progress summaries, clinical notes, transition summaries, and professional correspondence
- Organizes stakeholders' meetings, workshops and events
- Facilitates treatment strategies utilizing modalities on the continuum of care
- Interprets the results of assessment findings for the clients
- Complies with National Standards of Care set forth by licensing boards
- Collects and maintains treatment records and reports to ensure organizational, regulatory, accreditation, and contractual compliance
- Considers the validity, reliability, psychometric limitations, and appropriateness of instruments when selecting assessments
- Delivers evidence-based treatment for mental health disorders and involves relevant stakeholders
- Uses diagnostic and patient placement criteria to identify substance use disorders and appropriate treatment settings
- Manages crisis situations including self-inflicted harm or attempted suicide, to assure safety of client and significant others
- Performs or supervises specimen collection and/or alcohol testing procedures
- Promotes client knowledge, skills, and attitudes that contribute to a positive change
- Creates individualized treatment plans that reduce the negative effects of substance abuse and dependency
- Works with clients to establish realistic, achievable goals consistent with achieving and maintaining recovery.
- Schedules appointments and contact with clients as required
- Informs clients of their confidentiality rights
- Addresses client concerns, limitations, treatment progress and other concerns
- Supports clients with identifying behaviors or situations that interfere with recovery
- Facilitates the engagement of relevant individuals in treatment and recovery processes
- Generates objective session notes, describing what occurred during sessions
- Complies with quality assurance and aligns program goals and objectives
- Uses multiple forms of assessment, data, and/or instruments in forming conclusions, diagnoses, or recommendations
- Works with clients to determine eligibility for admission and readiness for treatment
- Conducts assessments related to the need for behavioral intervention (e.g., stimulus preference assessment, functional assessment, staff performance assessment) or for evaluating behavioral interventions
- Responds to crisis situations following established protocols
- Coordinates client involvement with community resources and care services
- Applies knowledge of medical and pharmaceutical resources in planning and implementing treatment of substance use disorders
- Assesses the appropriateness of involving concerned others in the assessment process
- Uses client feedback to improve service delivery
- Develops, recommends, and reviews treatment goals and plans with clients and their families
- Gathers data about clients' current, past physical and mental health and substance-related treatment history
- Uses assessment instruments and interview strategies suitable to clients
- Supports clients in setting goals and working towards them
- Carries out diagnosis of mental disorders, selects and uses assessment techniques to determine client care, treatment, type of treatment, recommendations and follow-up)
- Utilizes treatment strategies and modalities appropriate for client's level of cultural and language literacy, acculturation, or assimilation
- Complies with federal, state and HIPAA regulations, as it relates to medical records and information privacy
- Provides specific referral questions and sufficient objective data about clients to ensure that appropriate assessment instruments are utilized when clients are referred for third party assessments
- Facilitates emergency procedures associated with overdose and acute withdrawal symptoms
- Delivers treatment services to clients
- Reviews substance use with client and helps client establish targets for improvement
- Assists families, couples, and significant others to understand the interaction between the system and substance use behaviors
- Coordinates treatment activities with community resources to address client's needs
- Maintains records of interactions with clients in keeping with legal standards
- Facilitates the development of basic and life skills associated with recovery
- Develops addiction service plans that link client needs with appropriate treatment philosophies, practices, and policies, that lead to relevant client outcomes
- Determines the importance of the relationship between clients and concerned others
- Assesses clients to establish the degree of risk for substance use
- Explains the significance of diagnostic reports from laboratory tests
- Assesses and determines the severity of client psychoactive substance use
- Establishes rapport with clients to facilitate cooperation and engagement in treatment
- Organizes outreach programs to educate about addiction, other destructive behavior, including prevention
- Coordinates services that support response to emergency problems in crisis situations
- Oversees the implementation of behavior-analytic programs
- Uses substance use disorder assessment instruments, administers and scores procedures for substance use disorder instruments
- Improves processes for quality of care including planning clinical services
- Designs, implements, and monitors skills-acquisition and behavior reduction programs
